San Ysidro
A police officer was injured Wednesday in San Ysidro while arresting an illegal alien suspected of robbery, police reported.
Officer Linda Miller was part of a team of officers engaged in a sweep of the border area after reports that illegal aliens were being robbed by Mexican nationals about half a mile east of the port of entry and half a mile north of the border, police spokesman Bill Robinson said.
As members of the Border Crime Prevention Unit approached a group of four men, Miller began to talk to one of them. The man struck her, grabbed a broken bottle and cut her with it on the forearm and elbow.
The officer was treated at the scene by paramedics.
Domingo Vasquez Cortez, 25, of Tijuana was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He and three other Tijuana residents were also arrested in connection with an Oct. 5 robbery. The others were Samuel Sosa Salazar, 31; Carlos Ojeda Garcia, 21, and Pablo Valadez, 30.
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